Any question answered...

will I die?

Sadly, yes; but unless you're going to massively overload the rack, a skewer mount's unlikely to be what kills you.

Cool, thanks. Can look forward to the original death as planned then.

will I die?

As Thrustvector says, yes, but by careful design of your rack structure you can reduce the probability that your front brake will cause ejection of your QR wheel, so you might even live longer with the rack than without it.

I'm looking for a 120mm track (flip flop) hub which can be re-spaced to 135mm OLD.

Will this work with any old track hub and a longer axle and some spacers?

Bike shop are saying get a Profile racing or White Industries ENO hub but those are ££ and this is for a town/commuter bike (plug charge zero after they stopped making them with 120mm spacing at the back - sigh) so not looking for spendy bits.

Any ideas?

Will this work with any old track hub and a longer axle and some spacers?

Not just any old hub, it need to be something for which you can actually get a longer axle. Something like Novatec won't be simple because the bearings sit on a shoulder on the axle itself, for example. BDop do 130mm axles for Novatec which will probably be OK with 135mm too on a steel bike with thinner track ends. Also, the stock Novatec axles are hollow, so it's perfectly feasible in ghetto mode to just space them out to 135mm and stick enough spacers outside the track ends to allow a QR skewer to hold things together, or cut the axles down to 143mm overall length to sit in the track ends properly if you want to go all #tartmode 🙂

Usually I'd suggest a 6-bolt hub like HB-M755/756 as the conversion parts can be bought off the shelf at Velosolo, but if you insist on flip/flop that won't work. Any old 135mm 6-bolt rear MTB hub will get you the OLN spacing you want and the choice of fixed or free, sprockets for 6-bolt and HG freehubs are easily available in loads of sizes, but the chainline on the fixed side is quite wide.

Nice one; cheers

I think ison have 135m single speed/fixed surly hubs on sale right now

A 135mm hub won't work. As I found out after I had a set of wheels built with a 135mm surly hub. Sprocket was foul of the chainstay. Needs a 120mm hub with longer axle and spacers.

Thanks; much helpful.

Planning to run a freewheel so 6 bolt hub not preferred (still have a WI freewheel from when I tried and failed to resolve this last time).

Hollow axle and qr sounds like a plan. This bike is already fairly bodge so don't mind that.

If you're not bothered about having a fixed sprocket, 130mm spaced cassette hub and a single speed kit should be easily sourced and you'll have room to play with sprocket line to avoid the chainstay.

Loctite red gives you more time for "resetting".

Thanks. Makes sense.

In MS Edge, is it possible copy an image url to imbed?

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Right-click-> Properties -> Highlight the URL and either Right-click and copy or Ctrl+C

I only have:

• Save picture as
  
• share picture
  __________
  
• select all
  
• copy
  

Ah, I was in IE.

God knows in Edge. Right click, inspect element and copy it from there I guess but it's not always the easiest to see which is which.

Or
Right click
Ask Cortana about this picture
See full-size image (on the right-hand side)

This now opens the image in a new tab with the full URL.

Both a bodge though.

Cheers. Cortana doesn't seem to come up on my options. Although you've help me realise her name is Cortana rather than Cortina... which is how I've been saying it in my head.

Back with another question tho...

Does anyone know if there is another name for these:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M4-M5-M6-M8-x-15-A2-STAINLESS-STEEL-RAISED-COUNTERSUNK-THREADED-SLEEVE-NUTS/191771467782?hash=item2ca6786006:m:m8ItxBG2QbhZ4-LgPQHZmrw:rk:1:pf:0

+1GBP each is a bit steep even though I only wanted 4. But I can't seem to find any cheaper ones.

Cheers.

Something like this, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10X-M6-Furniture-Joint-Connector-Bolt-Cap-Nut-Hex-Allen-Key-Head-Cot-Bed-Bolts/163330342356?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122125356%26meid%3D5007443d51dc400295687a91e3aa6f35%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D191771467782%26itm%3D163330342356&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

Chicago screws?

Cheers both.

Ideally I was after M5, but I'm pretty sure I can just drill the holes out a bit.

Totally forgot about Chicago screws and you've reminded me I need to get some to make a keyring.

My overshoes need to be replaced. Which ones are good? Mainly for cold toes.

I have some basic neoprene planet X ones from a few years ago that I never use that you can have if you want?

To latch on to this, does anyone have experience with water-proof overshoes that actually fit over large shoes (EU size 48-50, UK 14ish) without being split in the process?

I'm wearing EU size 45 Sidi shoes - I'm pretty sure (don't have them in front of me) my Shimano S1000R overshoes are XXXL - and they're a wrench to pull on. G'luck with that.

Yep, unfortunately that's my experience too.